Product Code: P215
ISBN: 9780865547308
Product Format: Paperback
Price: $23.00
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P631
ISBN: 9780881468014
Price: $24.00
Why do lovers of J.R.R. Tolkien's LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy return to it again and again through their lives? Why does each rereading seem more nourishing? FRODO'S WOUND is a collection of essays that approaches these questions from various angles. It argues that while epic conflict and heroic warriors may provide the initial allure to the book, what lingers and deepens with each reading is its emotional complexity, its knowledge of loss and grief, and its yearning for something only dimly understood.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P708
ISBN: 9780881460179
Price: $20.00
On the heels of a global pandemic, two post-menopausal Appalachian women, one black, one white, abandoned hearth, home, and spouses shrugging in dubious wonderment to live and study abroad together in a university flat along Scotland's River Ayr. Poet E.J. Wade and author Karen Spears Zacharias roamed from the depths of Finnich Glen to the outcroppings of Dunure Castle. THE DEVIL'S PULPIT & OTHER MOSTLY TRUE SCOTTISH MISADVENTURES is part travelogue, part memoir, part poetry, and in outlandish Scottish storytelling tradition, a wee bit of winging it.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P711
ISBN: 9780881460421
Price: $22.00
SOUTHERN RANGE gathers John Lane's long poems into a volume spanning over four decades. Since the early 1980s Lane's imagination has often taken the form of long poems, or sequences of poems. Sometimes meditative, often layered, associative, and playful, this collection borrows images and explores memories from landscapes Lane knows well, mostly the upper Piedmont of South Carolina.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P669
ISBN: 9780881468908
Price: $35.00
This collection of essays is written in memory of Roger H. Prentice (1943-2022). Recognizing his faithful work and witness over many years, this memorial volume brings together a variety of essays and reflections on themes including: Baptist theology and identity, spirituality, chaplaincy and ministry, worship and the arts, and engagement with the wider world.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P627
ISBN: 9780881468113
Price: $35.00
Weaving together input from six experts in the fields of Bible, Church History, and Theology, CHRISTIANITY introduces learners to the practices, traditions, beliefs, and scriptures of the Christian faith. This expanded and updated edition tells Christianity's growth from humble origins to becoming the world's largest religion.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P679
ISBN: 9780881469073
Price: $20.00
Jackie K. Cooper has spent the last three decades of his life gathering his memories of growing up in the South. He has studied the various seasons of his life and having reached the winter season, he offers reflections on lessons learned, the people who have influenced him, the role of God's hand in his journey, and the good fortune with which he has been blessed.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P624
ISBN: 9780881467871
Price: $35.00
The idea for this volume arose from discussions at the February 2019 annual meeting of the Georgia Philosophical Society held at Mercer University on the theme of "Freedom and Society," and drafts of many of the chapters were first presented there. Including contributions from both early-career and well-known scholars, the chapters are tied together by questions about the nature of political freedom and autonomy in democratic societies and about the ways in which the enactment of democratic freedom depends on awareness of and engagement with freedom's underlying conditions.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P715
ISBN: 9780881469639
Price: $30.00
Maimonides's GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED (completed ca. 1191 CE) is among the most important and elusive works in the history of Judaism and philosophy. Among the greatest difficulties has been determining what genre of writing it belongs to.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P686
ISBN: 9780881469158
Price: $35.00
After World War I, a German bishop described the twentieth century as the "century of the Church." In this twenty-first century, the truth of his words have resonated with both Protestants and Catholics wrestling with the meaning and mission of the Christian community. In order to comprehend the Church, one must explore its own self-understanding throughout the centuries: from its foundation in the preaching of Jesus, the Fathers of the Church, the Medieval Period, the Reformation, and the emergence of the modern and postmodern technological world of today.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: HH1032
ISBN: 9780881468847
Price: $35.00
John T. Wilder was an influential nineteenth-century American industrialist, and a successful foundry owner at Greensburg, Indiana, when he enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War in April 1861. After the war, developed mines across eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, and dabbled in the hotel and railroad business, as well as politics. He was also heavily involved with getting the Chickamauga Battlefield established as the first National Military Park in the United States.
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Publisher: Mercer University Press
Product Code: P699
ISBN: 9780881469424
Price: $20.00
John Wesley O'Toole, a disbarred attorney-turned art dealer, continues to struggle in his effort to rebuild his shattered life after his release from prison. Having fallen in love with his girlfriend, Jenna, he quietly makes plans to propose marriage to her while on a romantic trip to Spain, surrounded by classical art in Madrid's Prado museum.
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